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In his dissent in a 1996 Supreme Court
decision overturning a voter-approved, anti-gay referendum in Colorado, Scalia
wrote in support of the voter majority, "I had thought that one could
consider certain conduct reprehensible -- murder, for example, or polygamy or
cruelty to animals -- and could exhibit even 'animus' toward such
conduct."

And
in 2003, after the Supreme Court negated a law in Texas that had criminalized
same-sex "sodomy," Scalia wrote in dissent, "The Texas statute
undeniably seeks to further the belief of its citizens that certain forms of
sexual behavior are 'immoral and unacceptable' -- the same interest furthered
by criminal laws against fornication, bigamy, adultery, adult incest,
bestiality and obscenity."

So, is Antonin
Scalia against gay marriage? You might well think that. He couldn’t possibly comment.